10 questions on China's climate change risk

MarketWatch: China's position in a global ranking on climate change risk is not encouraging. The mainland scored third most at risk, behind only India and Indonesia in terms of vulnerability in a 2011 survey of G-20 countries by HSBC. Topping the list of concerns is a water shortage. At the time of the report nine mainland China provinces were classed as having extreme water-scarcity issues, while 11 more were classed as water inefficient. The later batch is clustered around China's north and southwest,...

URL: http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2012/11/02/10-questions-on-chinas-climate-change-risk/